Celebrating Chinese New Year 2018: Synced Announces 30 Best AI Use Case Award
Synced celebrates the Chinese New Year 2018 by announcing our 30 Best AI Use Case Award. The Award recognizes companies that have applied AI in various industries or organizations.
Congratulations to the companies below for their outstanding achievements in the AI industry. Synced will continue to bring AI updates to our readers throughout 2018.
Agriculture
Cobot
Cobot’s intelligent grasping system comprises a robot, control system, visual system, and auxiliary system. The company is helping Yuguo Mushroom (裕国菇业) improve efficiency in sorting mushrooms.
1.02亿B轮融资创新高、巨头纷纷与之合作，这家公司要将机器人变得像电脑一样易于操作
Cyber Security
Netease AI
NetEase AI uses facial recognition technology to set up email log in verifications to ensure account safety.
China’s AI-powered NetEase is Music to Your Ears
SpeakIn
SpeakIn provides voiceprint recognition and ID security solution for China’s police departments and judicial institutions. The company uses AI for anti-telecommunication fraud, anti-terrorism, criminal detection, and ID security checks.
Education
Master Learner
Master Learner develops AI applications for education purposes, providing personalized classes for over 80 million primary and middle school students in China.
Yixue Education
Yixue Education works with Stanford University’s SRI Lab to research and deploy “intelligent adaptive learning” technologies. The company operates 500 schools in more than 20 Chinese provinces.
Entertainment
Kika Tech
Kika leverages speech interaction systems with its AI-powered product Kika Keyboard. The AI engine understands and predicts user intentions to make conversations more expressive.
Meitu
Meitu AI lab’s facial recognition and augmented reality technology enables Meitu beauty camera users to virtually try on trending makeup looks as well as create their own looks.
After Creating 166 Million Super Cute Selfies, Meitu’s AI Sets its Sights on Skin
成就护肤大业，除了负责清空购物车的男友，妹子们还需要一位AI皮肤顾问
Tuputech
With Tuputech’s real-time image and video recognition API, Inke was able to detect violent and other objectionable or explicit content in images and videos with 99.5% accuracy, reducing manpower by 90% or more.
Fintech & Insurance
4Paradigm
4paradigm AI helps Chinese banks boost performance in verticals like application anti-fraud, transaction anti-fraud, overdue or loss warning, liquidity management, smart collection, and disposal of non-performing assets.
Trio of China’s Big State Banks Invest in 4Paradigm AI
第四范式陈雨强：万字深析工业界机器学习最新黑科技
Ant Financial
Adopting image recognition technology, Ant Financial’s AI-powered computer vision system helps insurance companies to optimize accident claim procedures and settle cases more quickly.
蚂蚁金服发布「定损宝」，推动图像定损技术在车险领域的应用
蚂蚁金服：只做 Tech，支持金融机构做 Fin
CreditX
CreditX uses deep learning technology and knowledge mapping of financial data to help clients in the finance industry with risk management tasks.
Delta Entropy
Delta Entropy employs big data analysis and machine learning algorithms to enable automatic risk evaluation for large-scale machinery and equipment.
Ipampas
IPampasWealthBrain (iWB) provides AI solutions for financial institutions with intelligent wealth management and global asset allocation.
JD Finance
JD Finance uses a multi-dimensional consumer behavior model to analyze JD user data and recommends financial products to meet clients’ requirements.
Tachyus
Tachyus leverages machine learning in energy production for the oil and gas industry. Petroleum engineers can explore millions of scenarios and identify optimal operational and development plans.
Healthcare
Intuitive Surgical
Intuitive’s Da Vinci surgical robots enable surgeons to perform micro incision surgeries. The technologies have applications in cardiac, thoracic, urology, gynecologic, colorectal, pediatric and general surgical disciplines.
Intel
Intel develops the smart medical imaging technology that helps China’s Aier Eye Hospital improve the accuracy of eye disease diagnoses.
12sigma
12sigma Technologies introduces AI and deep learning to medical image diagnosis and medical data analysis to help doctors analyze CT scans more efficiently, especially for lung cancer.
Legal
Ross Intelligence
Ross Intelligence uses NLP technology to automate legal research, and improves efficiency for law firms. The company has partnered with law schools to conduct further research.
世界首个AI法律助理ROSS完成A轮融资，力拓世界500强法律服务市场
Patsnap
Patsnap’s AI-powered patent search and analysis platform helps business leaders, analysts, researchers, engineers and IP professionals make well-informed decisions.
Logistics
Hikvision
HikVision’s smart warehouse solutions help China’s Master Logistics process documents and data in warehousing operations.
Marketing, Sales, and CRM
BloomReach
BloomReach helps department store Neiman Marcus make their content more discoverable with applications using content management, self-learning personalized site search, SEO optimization and merchandising analytics.
Clarifai helps image recognition translate product image tags into 12 different languages to improve SEO and drive traffic to products in its e-commerce store, saving over US$10,000 in agency fees.
机器之心独家对话Clarifai创始人：从图像识别到无限可能
Haomaiyi
HMY Technology designs virtual fitting rooms. Its AI powered 3D reconstruction technology allows users to “model” different outfits.
Malong Technologies
Malong’s cloud-based ProductAI computer vision systems offer custom visual search engines for retailers’ product catalogues.
刚刚获得软银中国2.2亿人民币B轮投资的码隆科技，到底是一家怎样的公司？
Yi Tunnel uses image & facial recognition technology to produce AI-powered purchasing and vending machines, which allow unattended checkout and make offline shopping more convenient.
Speech Interaction
AISpeech
AISpeech specializes in speech interaction technology. Its services are used by well-known home speaker brands in China including Alibaba’s AliGenie.
在 AI 创业的好时代，初敏结束 8 年阿里生涯加入思必驰
思必驰发布 DUI 开放平台，全链定制化赋能更多终端
Elevoc
Elevoc Technology provides a new-generation voice signal processing engine for telecommunication, smart home and vehicle devices. It does real-time implementation of practical monaural speech de-noising.
Transportation
iflytek
iFlyTek’s speech recognition solutions are used in cars for hands-free interaction. Users can make voice navigation commands, phone calls, send text messages, access a browser search and so on.
Will iFlytek Voice Input’s 98% Accuracy Kill the Keyboard?
Kuaishou
Kuaishou is a live video streaming platform broadcasting user generated content. It includes an AI-powered recommendation system.
